You may not realize, but internal vibrations in your camera's action can completely screw up a shot of a planet....even when on a tripod. The moon shot showed a little bit of that, but since it is not a point source, it wasn't as noticeable.

It's still a streetlight. I highly doubt you pulled out a transit compass and measured that 20 to 30 degrees. Most people are pretty bad at estimating angles from the vertical.

forked_at_fark:, you have yet to comment on the fact that what you specifically referred to as a street light and the "UFO" seem like the same object. There has been more than one visual comparison made in this thread already, see above.

i'm sorry, forked at fark, but gaboo totally pwned any remaining shread of potential credibility (sorry, there was none). if the pics he found were from the same window, you were just high and forgot about the street light or something.

good thing you didn't go running around outside in your underoos "chasing" it. when it moved, were you in a different room? ;)

forked_at_fark:I have my scratch disks sorted out and my virtual memory is on a special partition on a different physical drive.

Good to hear. I actually went and cleaned up my own settings, too. If you ever have anymore PS questions, the Photoshop & Audio Edit Forum ("PSAEF," thread 6) is full of PSers who love to answer technical questions.